presidency. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent and pinocchio fan kaitlan collins is here. i know a thing or two about trump, we got a lot to talk about when it comes to that. not making any connections. we begin with the new cnn reporting overnight involving a newly revealed email from the national archives, email that shows just how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents in the archives did not think should be in his position at all. the email indicates records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they had to be, according to a source throughout 2021, there are about a dozen emails and calls including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, it is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the residence of the white house over the course of president trump s last year in office and have no
house have gotten ahead and put this offer on the table. i think that s something that the white house should continue to do, not just for paul and brittney, but for, you know, all americans who are wrongfully detained. so there is over 65 americans at least who are wrongfully detained, and i hope the administration continues to do that. in the case of your release, trevor, i mean, we didn t know that you were coming home until you were well out of russian air space. it went from you were detained and there were efforts to get you out, but all of a sudden it was happening. why do you think that this is being done differently? i think maybe that could signal a change in policy in the administration, maybe they re going to be, you know, more open to doing exchanges, it could be the fact that they re trying to show, you know, how important it is to this administration to get this done. it could be aye lot of things, m not an expert at that, but i think it is a good sign for
serious and ongoing criminal investigation, the filing argues that disclosure would quote, likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance might be saw as this investigation progresses. as well as in other high-profile investigations. in other words, this might not just be about retrieving documents. separately, the department of justice unsealed charges against a pennsylvania man accused of threatening to kill fbi agents after the search. and the former president speaking to fox, promised to help cool the climate of violence, even while inciting at some more. calling quote a very dangerous time. seiko i will do whatever i can to help the country. . then they break into the president s house, a sneak attack where it was thought that a thing like this could happen. went on to suggest the fbi planted evidence and said quote, the people of this country are not going to stay for another scam. fire to the gasoline. prosecutors in atlantic notified rudy giuliani that
a fiction you called it. yeah. look. it s if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. i d love to see what gets produced. and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box labeled as sci, sensitive compartmented information. can you think of any reason a former president would have to have sensitive compartmented information in his residence? no, look, in a normal administration a president is quite likely to write memoirs, he ll want and deserves access to highly classified information, arrangements are made for former presidents and indeed for former cabinet officers who leave under happy circumstances, that scifs are set up that they can go to and look at this c
doj cross hairs. cnn learning tonight that cassidy hutchinson, the aide to former white house chief of staff mark meadows, is now cooperating with the department of justice s investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn the election. now, this is a major development, because of course, you know, hutchinson was a key witness for the january 6th committee. her testimony there providing a window into trump s state of mind in the days leading up to, and in those crucial moments of january 6th. she was in the room for some of the most damning and important conversations, including one that shows that trump knew that his rally could turn violent, because his supporters were armed. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i don t care if they have weapons, let me people in, they can mar to have the capitol from here. knew they were armed and take the mags away, head for the capitol. ty cobb told us, if this